Another anti * book to be released next month/will detail AWOL

[CatWoman]

"His records have clearly been cleaned up," says author James Moore, whose upcoming book, "Bush's War for Re-election," will examine the issue of Bush's military service in great detail. Moore says as far back as 1994, when Bush first ran for governor of Texas, his political aides "began contacting commanders and roommates and people who would spin and cover up his Guard record. And when my book comes out, people will be on the record testifying to that fact: witnesses who helped clean up Bush's military file."


http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0471483850-0



http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/05/national_guard/

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Great!

We have to get that thing WAY up on the bestseller lists alongside the other great liberal reading.

[ewagner]

2. Thanks for the "Head's Up" catwoman

Sounds like a must read!

[Goldom]

3. Amazon.com Sales Rank: 1,431,711

That's... kinda sad... let's all go buy it...

[librechik]

4. check it again next week (snicker) Paging Tim Russert!

oh yeah, it's Tim Russert.

[hlthe2b]

9. Never mind... I just found it and pre-ordered

[hlthe2b]

7. I have searched repeatedly on Amazon... even with the ISBN number

I can't even find it listed. How did you locate it?

[CatWoman]

8. click on the link in the original thread

you can preorder thru Powell's Books.

[blondeatlast]

13. Pre-pub; it isn't surprising.

[Hand]

5. Excellent...

As Marshal Foch used to say, and as my Dad (a lifelong unreconstructed New Deal Democrat and he didn't care who knew it) used to repeat:

L'ATTAQUE, L'ATTAQUE, TOUJOURS L'ATTAQUE!!!!!

A BAS CHIMPY!!! A BAS LE PNAC!!!

(Not sure why I'm doing all this Frenchy stuff, except that it would irritate the poop out of the Freepers. That must be it.)

}( :bounce: :nuke: :yourock:

[sonias]

6. Loved the story in Salon - Keep bringing it on

Even my own local rag here in Austin, TX (the supposedly liberal capital of Texas) editorialized this morning that the Vietnam war had passed and it was time to move on. Granted they endorsed the repuke Governor in his 2000 election so it should come as no surprise. Just another paper acting as a bu$h apologist.
http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/auto/epaper/editions/thursday/editorial_04128f53426e628e00b8.html

What makes me mad is these chicken-hawk repukes wrap themselves up with the American flag, but then think their military service is outside the bounds of acceptable public discourse. Hey, I say he opened himself up for closer inspection by parading around in the flight suit and callously calling for Iraqi insurgents to "bring it on." Be careful what you wish for shrubbie, because we are definitely going to bring a microscope right over to your AWOL skivvies Hey why don't you restore honor and dignity to the White House and come clean, like your Poppy made Clinton do? What do you have to hide smirk? Let's see those records of your honorable service huh?

(snip) Salon Article
But experts say that citation does not wipe away the questions. "An honorable discharge does not indicate a flawless record," says Grant Lattin, a military law attorney in Washington and a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who served as a judge advocate, or JAG officer."
(/snip)

(snip) Salon Article
Releasing military records has become a time-honored tradition of presidential campaigns. During the 1992 presidential election, Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, called on his Democratic opponent, Bill Clinton, to make public all personal documents relating his draft status during the Vietnam War, including any correspondences with "Clinton's draft board, the Selective Service System, the Reserve Officer Training Corps, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines, the Coast Guard, the United States departments of State and Justice, any U.S. foreign embassy or consulate." That, according to a Bush-Quayle Oct. 15, 1992, press release.
(/snip)

Sonia

[SpiralHawk]

10. "Stop it. Just stop it...

...you're tearing me apart."
- The plaintive cry of the Chimp in Chief
as he pleads for some kind kompassionate konservativism

[UTUSN]

11. My Local Wingnut's Last Stand

Every time I relay an unanswerable bash on Shrub, he either ignores/does not reply to the specific bash point. Regarding the A.W.O.L. thing, his response is SHEER FAITH/belief, saying that "the man (Shrub) is TODAY is not the same as the one he was back then. I BELIEVE he had a back-to-Jesus moment." By this line of BLIND belief, the slate is wiped clean. There's just no reasoning with them.

[JohnyCanuck]

12. If Dubya has "seen the light" why does he still cuss and swear

like a drunken sailor on shore leave.

From the Toronto Globe and Mail.

Though it wasn't publicized at the time, Prime Minister Paul Martin got a sense of that sanctimony when he met with Mr. Bush in early January in Mexico. Mr. Bush let the Prime Minister know that he believed himself to be on the side of God and tending to God's mission.

The Canadian side, while aware of the President's penchant for religiosity, had been expecting to talk more about softwood lumber than the Ten Commandments. The Canadians didn't expect the morality play. Nor did they expect that, almost in the same breath, Mr. Bush would be filling the air with the f-word and other saucy expletives of the type that would surely leave the Lord perturbed. Nor did they anticipate a pointed attack on French President "Jack Cheerack," as Mr. Bush called him, for his views on the Middle East.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040205/COMARTIN05/TPComment/TopStories

Of course there are also the well known incidents when, for example, during the campaign he was overheard calling a reporter a "major league asshole" and there's the infamous "Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out" comment which I believe was reported in Time magazine.

I don't think Jeebus would be too pleased at Dubya's potty mouth. He seemed to have a hangup about hyprocrites.

[salin]

18. and the comment to a reporter when asked about what he and his

father talk about when alone.... *smirk* "Pussy!" blech.

[Cooley Hurd]

14. "I BELIEVE he had a back-to-Jesus moment..."

I thought that meant you were dead (as in, "...coming for to carry me home.")

:shrug:

[UTUSN]

16. The Wingnut Won't (Can't) Elaborate When Cornered n/t

[salin]

17. then how does one explain the insider trading

and cheating (stealing) from investors which happened years after the "back to Jesus" moment?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

15. Maybe Soros could buy this in bulk to get it to the top of the NYT list